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@#142 ... General Electric (GE): Once provided extensive pensions and secure middle-class career stability, but later closed and froze its traditional plans to cut legacy costs. ...
Yup.
Because CEOs like Mr Welch apparently took over the company and, instead of using the comanpy's income and wealth to benefit the workers who created that wealth and income, detoured that money t the uber-rich management.
Mr Welch's reign over GE dows not now seem to be A Good Thing ...
Jack Welch
en.wikipedia.org
... Under Welch, GE acquired the RCA Corporation in 1986 and expanded aggressively into financial services through GE Capital, which came to account for 40% of the company's revenue. ...
In later years, Welch's practices and legacy have drawn scrutiny from historians and journalists, particularly regarding his transformation of GE into a company heavily dependent on financial services.[1] GE Capital collapsed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis ...
So, how much did Mr Welch's management buddies benefit from his ~transformation~ of GE?
Did he just suck GE dry of money for his benefit and the benefit of his frieds?
@#6 ... The goal was to help victims and witnesses feel safe reporting crimes to local police without fear of deportation. ...
That fear is similar to the reason why immigrants commit fewer crimes than American citizens.
The mythical tie between immigration and crime (2023)
siepr.stanford.edu
... Opponents of immigration often argue that immigrants drive up crime rates. But newly released research from Stanford economist Ran Abramitzky and his co-authors finds that hasn't been the case in America for the last 140 years.
The study reveals that first-generation immigrants have not been more likely to be imprisoned than people born in the United States since 1880.
Today, immigrants are 30 percent less likely to be incarcerated than are U.S.-born individuals who are white, the study finds. And when the analysis is expanded to include Black Americans -- whose prison rates are higher than the general population -- the likelihood of an immigrant being incarcerated is 60 percent lower than of people born in the United States. ...
Data centers are a bi-partisan issue currently.
Things like this do not help the AI want of building more and more data centers...
Elon Musk's makeshift AI power plant generates sound and fury in Mississippi
www.nbcnews.com
... Eddie Gossett awoke one morning last summer to what sounded like an airport runway suddenly opening on his rural Mississippi road.
The jet engine roar has been almost nonstop ever since, much to the frustration and insomnia of Gossett and his neighbors. It isn't a plane " or anything supernatural " though. It's Elon Musk.
Just down the road from Gossett's house, 18 methane gas turbines had arrived on trailers on behalf of the richest person in the world. Without warning, the temporary turbines began running day and night, locals say, to power Musk's AI ambitions.
"I intended to die right here," said Gossett, 76, who wonders how long he will have to put up with the noise and the air pollution. "Hell, I couldn't give my house away with all this noise." ...
Musk's xAI bought the long-dormant power plant in Southaven last year and plans to spend more than $20 billion in the area, some of it on a new data center in the city. It was the largest private investment in state history, according to Mississippi's governor.
Nine more temporary turbines arrived in December, bringing the total to 27. The company has since applied for a permit to put in 41 permanent turbines at the 114-acre site to generate electricity for AI data centers. ...
From what I understand ...
Mr Musk placed the turbines in Mississippi due to the more lax laws, for the main purpose to feed his data center in neighboring Tennessee.
xAI's Colossus 2 Power Plant Operated Without Federal Air Permits
https://www.technology.org/2026/07/15/xai-59-unpermitted-gas-turbines-southaven-colossus-2/
... Elon Musk's xAI installed 59 natural gas turbines to power its Colossus 2 data center without securing federal clean air permits, according to correspondence between regulators and company representatives.
That number is roughly double what the company has publicly acknowledged. At least 57 of the turbines run in Southaven, Mississippi, minutes across the state line from the Memphis facility they feed.
Their potential emissions land far above the threshold that triggers a federal permit requirement, in communities already carrying high rates of lung disease. ...
... Poll after poll shows the same thing. The American people know that the current economic system is rigged ...
Yup.
Democrat American voters seem to be voting more against the incumbent than actually for the DSA.
Nonetheless, the moving of voters towards the DSA and away from the billionaires seems to have created a major issue for the GOP and MAGA.
How do they (i.e., the GOP and MAGA) fight that?
By calling nearly everything they do not agree with "communism?"
I mean, you can see that GOP and MAGA angst here on this site. It almost amounts to troll bait, it seems to be so prolific.
The voters' apparent move away from the billionaire oligarchy seems to have them (i.e., the GOP and MAGA) very, oh so very., concerned.
Just look at how much time they have been expending and expounding upon the topic...